BUSINESS IN BRIEF

EAST NORRITON — Montgomery County Economic Development Corp. and it’s Montco Young Professionals Group will present a social media workshop, “What’s All the Tweet About?” on Thursday, Oct. 11, from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at 401 Plymouth Road, Plymouth Meeting.

While many businesses are already taking advantage of Twitter, most marketing departments and business owners don’t correctly understand how Twitter can benefit their business or if it’s even appropriate for their business. Join MCEDC and its Montco YPG to shed some light on Twitter and similar social media.

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Attendance is $25 for MCEDC/YPG embers and $40 for non-members. Email your RSVP to events@montcoedc.com with “10/11 YPG Social Media RSVP” as your subject line.

SCORE offers small business seminar in Exton

EXTON — A seminar, “How to Start & Operate a Small Business,” conducted by the Small Business Assistance Center and Kutztown University’s Small Business Development Center and co-sponsored by the Chester County chapter of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Chester County Library. The library is next to Exton Square Mall, near routes 100 & 30, at 450 Exton Square Parkway.

WASHINGTON — Small business owners and start-ups across the country can now take advantage of a new business tool to help them compete and grow. The free tool, called SizeUp, helps businesses identify new customers and compare their performance against other businesses in their industry with data collected from hundreds of private and public sources. The tool can be found at www.sba.gov/sizeup.

The SizeUp tool provides data analysis in three key ways:

• Benchmarking an existing business to see how it sizes up by comparing performance to all other competitors in the same industry;

• A mapping feature to see where customers and suppliers are located; and

• Finding the best places to advertise by choosing from pre-set reports to find areas with the highest industry revenue and the most underserved markets. Custom demographic reports can also be created.

GIS Planning Inc., the company that created SizeUp, has licensed the tool to SBA for one year. SBA’s acceptance of this product is not an endorsement of the opinions, products or services of GIS Planning Inc.